Some tennis balls for dogs, chew toys for cats and women

Parvin Khaleda . Back from Sirajdikhan, Munshiganj When dark spots had started appearing on Robeda Begum's hands and feet nine years back, members of her family even stared at her with doubts. Some of the neighbours distanced themselves from her as they took the lesions as symptoms of some contagious disease. Initially, this was the attitude towards people with arsenic-related ailments until the disease and its cure were unknown to them. Massive awareness over the years changed the people's attitude towards aersenicosis patients and alerted them to the danger of arsenic poisoning.

>> Abul Hussam, a chemistry professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, was awarded the Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability. The Bangladesh-born US citizen was awarded by the

• Parkland Medical Center in Derry, the US, has been honoured for becoming mercury-free. It got the

Using microbes to detect metals in effluents

Chicken laced with arsenic

The problem of natural contamination of groundwater with highly toxic poisons like arsenic and fluoride is here to stay. The million dollar question is: Is there a way out for this global problem?

Good for a change A common pollutant strongly impacts the behaviour of arsenic and possibly other toxic metals in some lakes, shows a research conducted by us-based Massachusetts

Damodar river is in deep water. Rampant mining in the North Karanpura coalfield spread over Hazari

Radiation from cellular phones is a well-known risk. Now there is another type of pollution from the wireless device which has raised a wave of worry. A study conducted by Inform, an environmental

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